McLean recognized as OUA All-Rookie

BURLINGTON, ON – Nathan McLean, a kicker/punter with the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team, was named an OUA All-Rookie on Tuesday as the conference announced the 2016 OUA Football All-Rookies.

McLean, a native of Kitchener, Ont., had a very strong first season with the purple and gold as he served as the Hawks primary kickoff specialist while also filling in when starter Nathan Mesher of Waterloo, Ont., was lost for the second half of the season due to injury.

Serving as the Hawks kickoff specialist for much of the year, the St. Mary’s HS grad averaged 55.2 yards per kickoff as he set a new school record for kickoff yards in a season with 2651, breaking the old mark of 2513 set by Nathan Hawkes in 2010.

McLean also finished the year averaging 32.6 yards per punt on 27 attempts and connected on four of his eight field goal attempts.

McLean becomes the 10th Golden Hawk to be named an OUA All-Rookie since the award was introduced by the league in 2013.